Figure 1.--Here we see a family cabinet card portrait in 1912. By this time, cabinet cards were declining in populrity. The card measures 7.5" x 9.5", larger than the classic 19th century cabinet card. It is dated Janury 2, 1912 and includes cousins as well as siblings. The families are Knock, Kruse, and Smit, all German sounding names. Note all the boys are wearing tunic suits, a very popular fashion at the time. The child at right we believe is a boy. The names are written at the bottom of the card, but are difficult to read. We have figured out some of them.Click on the image if you would like to help decipher the names. The boys look to be about 3-5 years old. The two girls are older and wear dresses. We see small cabinet cards in the 1900s, but by the 1910s we see mostly these larger cards.

Print sizes of the new cabinet cards just like the mount sizes also varied with the turn of the 20th century. We see smaller and larger prints as well as some the old sizes seen uin the 189th century. Very small prints were popular in these new cards. We suddently see pribts smaller than the ones once with CDVs. We have no idea why small sizes suddently became so popular. Duribng the late-19th century, most people wanted larger sized prints. Sometimes we see these with oval formatting. Here sizes varied quite a bit. In some cases we see very small images on large cards. We also see larger prints than were common in the 19th century. We saw some large prints in the 19th century, but they were not very common. We no longer see such stadardized print sizes with the turn-of-th century. We see many more small prinrs. We see more large prnts as ell, but they were not as common as the small sized prints. We are just beginning our assessment here. The shape of the print also varied, but this was primarily a function of the shape of the mount.

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